Doom 4 Dev Responds To Leak

It seems the purported Doom 4 images that leaked earlier this week are in fact from the game, but id Software says they are not indicative of the final product.

"Those images have nothing to do with what you're gonna see in Doom 4," said design director Matt Hooper on Twitter. "When we officially show things you'll see awesome...fans will be happy."

On Tuesday, more than 170 images surfaced on the Internet that includes art assets, character models, and environment set pieces. Rumors of the game's cancellation continue to be false as parent company Bethesda confirmed recently Doom 4 was still in development.

id knows show to make an FPS. Say what you will, RAGE was great. Game sites ragged on it for being buggy, but Skyrim is hundreds of times worse and got a free pass. Lets be consistent people. Regardless, I still pop in Doom 3 from time to time (not to mention the original on XBLA) for some fun.

That's good. If this is Doom, it's lacking a whole lot of things that define that series. It needs WAY more fire & brimstone, and satanic imagery, and Eldritch Abominations (link: tvtropes.org/.../EldritchAbomination). And the darker, shadowy, creepiness that Doom 3 had, too.

This stuff just looks too similar to a hundred other shooters that take place in ruined cities, which - thanks to stupid military games - are all of them, practically. It looks VERY similar to FEAR 2 and 3 there, and noticeably less good than Rage, despite running on the same tech. I personally was hoping to hear that these were old, unfinished areas that needed a few more passes, so I'm happy to hear this.

At least we now know for sure that Doom 4 is continuing on Doom 3 "soft reboot" thinking. If Doom 3 was the same story/premise as Doom, than it's clear Doom 4 is going to cover the same territory as Doom 2: Hell on Earth. Which is cool. Never really got much of a different "flavor" from Doom 2, despite the supposed change in setting. If id every returns to make Quake V, I'd love to see them treat that as a remake of sorts of Quake 1.

Can't wait to see this in action! I love id - Quake 2 is still the best shooter ever made in my book, and nothing beats Quake 3 multiplayer. Even Rage, a game I didn't buy until recently thanks to it's price drop on PS3, was a really, REALLY awesome game that wasn't as derivative of other post-apocalypse games as I had thought. These guys ONLY make fun, pretty games! And bring far more creativity to them than all the military shooter developers in the world combined!